OBIT: David STEWART, Sr., 1869, Colerain Forge, Huntingdon County, PA

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AN OLD CITIZEN GONE.

  Mr. David Stewart, sr., a well known and respected Iron Master, and 
for many years connected with the Iron business with the Lyons, Shorbs 
& Co., departed this life at Colerain Forge, Huntingdon county, on the 
morning of the 19th ult.; aged 77 yrs., and as we followed in the long 
procession, his remains to their last resting place, we were forcibly 
impressed with the fact that life at the farthest is but a short 
journey, even from the cradle to the grave. - All things else may be 
doubtful, and we may be ignorant on all other subjects, but of our own 
mortality we are all conscious.  Hence the text of holy writ: "For the 
living know that they shall die."
  In the death of Mr. Stewart the community in which he lived will 
sustain a great loss.  He will be missed in the forges, on the farms, 
in the work shops, in the family circle, and in the Church; but we have 
reason to believe, however great may be the loss, his is eternal gain.
  Of Mr. Stewart it may truthfully be said that he was among the sober 
minded and influential, and for a great number of years known as one of 
the most prominent iron men in the State.  We have been personally 
acquainted with Mr. Stewart for a number of years, and have found that 
his career has not been all a business one; but in social life he won 
the confidence of all with whom he came into contact; and in religious 
movements or church enterprise he allowed none to give of their 
substance more liberally than he; and during the latter years of his 
life he appeared to be in his element only when he was doing something 
for the promotion of Christianity and the advancement of Christ's 
kingdom on earth.
  Of Mr. Stewart's early life we know but little more than that he 
served an apprenticeship to the Tanning trade, and when he started in 
business on his own account his means were not over abundant, but his 
steady habits, his diligent application to labor, and his shrewd 
business talents enabled him to accumulate wealth, and he leaves to his 
family an abundance of this world's goods; and to the business circle 
an enviable reputation, not less honorable than enterprising, and 
adorned by the highest personal virtues.
  "How sweet it must be when manhood's summer has merged into the 
glorious evening of old age, to look back from the shadows of the dark 
valley, which will soon be dispelled by the morning sun in a more 
glorious world, and contemplate a life where no intentional missteps 
can be recalled, and where we can remember no time when we have caused 
a cloud to fall over those we loved.  Then will the rough and uneven 
places in our pathway look less uninviting in the twilight of life, and 
the bright sunny spots will sparkle as so many diamonds in the crown 
awaiting the finally faithful."  Happy indeed are those whose 
intercourse with the world has not changed the course of their holier 
feelings, or broken those musical chords of the heart whose vibrations 
are so tender and so touching in the evening of old age.
            FORGEMAN.
    Tyrone Forges, June 3d(?), '69.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., June 4, 1869